In the coming week, Myanmar marks three years under military junta rule.

Ukraine seeks greater continued EU support, and Kenya's High Court decides on whether a peacekeeping force can be sent to Haiti.

It's January 25th, 2024 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carly Ann Robbins.

So, Bob, let's start with Myanmar.

Next Thursday, marks three years since the military junta seized complete power.

It wasn't like they were not pulling the strings from behind the scenes.

This is a hugely repressive, even genocidal regime.

However, its control may be weakening.

Since last October, something called the Three Brotherhood Alliance,

which is a coalition of three armed ethnic groups has been attacking military bases,

and they're gaining real territory. Is the Hunta's days numbered?

Well, it would have been really far-fetched to even ask that question not too long ago, Carla,

but it is looking really bad for the junta for all sorts of reasons. The first thing it should be

said whenever you get into the thicket of

Myanmar is it is incredibly complicated, it is incredibly ethnically diverse country. It always

astounds me when I start poking around in Myanmar, just how diverse country it is. But the military

has been this, you know, for one of a better term, a glue for the country, or at least a force of some stability

over the decades, despite the cost of that, which has been, as you said, this repressive rule,

not just recently, but over many years and many cycles, they are particularly pernicious

regime and recently, you know, have lived up to that with reports of torturing opposition opponents

and demonstrators, even using snipers to pick off people demonstrating against them.

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